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Khodr Al Agha 06 October 2026
A person holds a piece of raw ore at the Al-Amar gold mine in Al-Quwayiyah, 195 kilometres southwest of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on 28 May 2008.
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Business & Economy

How Australia fits into Saudi Arabia’s mining ambitions

Alice Gower 05 October 2026
US President Donald Trump displays the GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act) after signing it in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on 18 July 2025. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP

Trump family at centre of US bank-chartering boom

A new wave of bank charters is bringing stablecoins, fintech, and digital assets deeper into the US financial system at a rapid pace. Can regulators keep up?

Abdulfattah Khattab 24 September 2026
Al Majalla/Reuters

Houthi actions change the security calculus in East Africa

The presence of large armies and costly bases no longer guarantees control. The rules are now written by whoever has the will and the accessible means to enforce them

Sergey Eledinov 23 September 2026

A strait threat to the global economy

Fares Garabet 24 September 2026

Five books that trace the history of classical music

From British brass bands to the hymns of a Sumerian priestess and a film score that makes light of death, our aural history spans continents and millennia. These books have a unique take on it

Osama Esber 23 September 2026
Sara Padovan

How OpenAI’s agents went rogue and started working together

A test involving 1,206 AI agents shows how quickly autonomous systems can coordinate, spread risky behaviour, and escape the boundaries of their original task

Marco Mossad 22 September 2026

Canada welcomes EU proposal to be 'associate member'

Fares Garabet 20 September 2026
Chloe Aridjis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scotland, on 16 August 2019.
Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images

Chloe Aridjis on why fantasy is so important in her writing

Al Majalla interviews the Mexican-British writer whose latest novel, 'The Shadow of the Thing', was longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 20 September 2026
Apple CEO John Ternus stands on stage at Apple's "Surprise and Shine" event at the company's corporate headquarters, Apple Park, on 9 September 2026 in Cupertino, California. Benjamin Fanjoy / AFP

John Ternus: what Apple’s new boss means for the Arab world

His experience in improving specifications and broadening what a product can do and who can afford it could help distinguish Apple products from competitors

Marco Mossad 19 September 2026
Grace Russell

The peril of AI: could it wipe out humanity?

Leading industry figures warn that artificial intelligence capabilities are advancing faster than humanity's ability to govern, restrain, and control them

Al Majalla - London 17 September 2026
Al Majalla

The US and China are locked in a smart Cold War

Washington wants to slow AI down, but only after securing its lead over Beijing

Shirley Ze Yu 17 September 2026
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Iran-Houthi escalation could backfire. Here is how

05, Oct 2026

The more Iran and its regional allies try to corner Yemen's government, the more international support it is getting to fight back

Ibrahim Jalal
Eduardo Ramón
Documents & Memoirs

Exclusive interview with the man who caught Eli Cohen

30, Sep 2026

Ibrahim Hamidi spent years following the story of Mossad's 'spy in Damascus ', but some secrets remained untold. He then learned that the man who could answer them was still alive

Ibrahim Hamidi
The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea met in Alamein Egypt on 4 October to discuss regional tensions. Eritrea Ministry of Information via X
Politics

Have Ethiopia's neighbours formed an alliance against it?

06, Oct 2026

The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea met in Alamein on Sunday, which some interpret as a formation of a loose security alliance aimed at influencing the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa

Amr Emam
A digital billboard displays fuel prices at a petrol station in Berlin on 2 October 2026. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Business & Economy

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of reserve diesel

03, Oct 2026

Analysts believe that Trump is hoping to lower domestic fuel prices before the November midterm elections, which could see Democrats win a majority of seats in Congress

Alexandra Sharp
A supporters of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a Brazilian flag after a closing campaign rally, one day before the general election, in Sao Paulo, on 3 October, 2026. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Politics

Who will be Brazil’s next president?

04, Oct 2026

Neither Lula nor Bolsonaro won an outright majority, so the two men will face off on 25 October in an election that could serve as a bellwether of Donald Trump's influence in Latin America

The Economist

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